microbiology

[1] I'm not sure why I should trust her to do a review of the microbiology literature.

If you find phylogeny to be "bullshit", your biology and microbiology professors have truly failed you.

I have a bunch of questions born of my ignorance of microbiology:Is it possible this organism evolved in the last few decades, with the advent of clean rooms?

Without a proper workup, which in this case would have likely involved some sort of diagnostic microbiology, people end up over- or mistreating themselves.

When that happens, you're the guy telling newcomers to 'take it easy and just go with the flow'.Whatever you do in the future, remember the spirit and work ethics of the microbiology lab.

Wow. I'm a student in a research microbiology lab and I could give a rough overview of the projects of everyone in my lab, and the neighbouring sister microbiolgy lab too. There's no room for charades because one of the first questions scientists ask each other at social events of any kind is "so, what do you do/ work on?

Liberal arts degrees subsidize the hard science and engineering degrees since the per-credit-hour tuition is the same but the guy doing gender studies is way cheaper than the girl using the microbiology lab.

As I study biology and microbiology in college, the more I realize that taxonomy and phylogeny classification schemes are essentially bullshit.

> If you took a random person you passed on a busy London street at lunch time, how much better do you think they would be able to do their job if they knew how to program?How many would benefit from learning more physics, microbiology, or reading more Shakspeare?

You might take on that interesting, new, and risky interdisciplinary project with the guy from microbiology instead of reminding yourself that interdisciplinary projects are generally not reviewed well as people from neither discipline feel they have the expertise to look at them.